Development of Measurement Items for the Institutionalization of Enterprise Architecture Management in Organizations

While elaborate enterprise architecture management (EAM) methods and
models are at architects’ disposal, it remains an observable
and critical challenge to actually anchor, i.e. institutionalize,
EAM in the organization and among non-architects. Based on previous
work outlining design factors for EAM in light of institutional
theory, this work discusses the theoretical grounding of respective
design factors and proposes measurement items for assessing the
institutionalization of EAM in organizations. The work identifies
measurement items for the factors legitimacy, efficiency,
stakeholder multiplicity, organizational grounding, goal
consistency, content creation, diffusion and trust, contributing to
evaluate and inform EAM design from several, partially new
perspectives.